Unless nvidia pushes this stuff onto developers...none of this will be seen until the console can do this...

If only both ATi and Nvidia had a unified emblem/group or something that could push/pay for there features to be both in the game....

Sadly this is true and I really hope that both sony and microsoft are going with a more conventional design for their next generation of consoles. So until then I doubt we'll see anything like this in any games. Looking forward to 2012!

Fluid volume simulations are an important aspect of DX11, this also covers smoke for example. I guess Cryostasis was one of the first games that used it excessively (which made it almost unplayable on most systems, even with dedicated PhysX hardware). Fermi should perform much better, so I'm really looking forward to these benchmarks.

Thanks for the explanation - I just finished Cryostasis btw so I know exactly what you mean.

I'm rapidly becoming very interested in what these cards will bring to the table.

These tech demos demonstrate what the cards can do, but if such technologies were already used in a game, will the game really perform good on these cards?
Think of how many FPS you get when running one of those demos, then imagine what if it was implemented in current game, which has other things to render, would you really get decent performance?

What we see in these demos might only be implemented fully in games in a couple of years, and by then we will have much more powerful cards, which will run those games only decently, using a single GPU.

These tech demos demonstrate what the cards can do, but if such technologies were already used in a game, will the game really perform good on these cards?
Think of how many FPS you get when running one of those demos, then imagine what if it was implemented in current game, which has other things to render, would you really get decent performance?

What we see in these demos might only be implemented fully in games in a couple of years, and by then we will have much more powerful cards, which will run those games only decently, using a single GPU.

This is how its always been.

Its just a technology demonstration. We're just finally starting to see some of the features that were shown in the 8800GTX tech demos 3 1/2 years ago.